Jazz Articles

Our daily articles are carefully curated by the All About Jazz staff. You can find more articles by searching our website, see what's trending on our popular articles page or read articles ahead of their published dates on our Coming Soon page. Read our daily album reviews.

Album Review

Eric Vloiemans & Will Holshouser: Back On The Road Again

Read "Back On The Road Again" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 22, 2026

Here is an instrumental duo straight out of Alice's wonderland: trumpet and accordion. You heard right. Back on the Road Again features only two artists: Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloiemans and American accordionist Will Holshouser. The two formed a bond in 2018 and have been performing together for the most part ever since. Back on the Road Again is their third recording as a duo. It is an extraordinary alliance by any measure, and if Vloiemans and Holshouser were ...

Radio & Podcasts

Michelle Jones - Disney & Wayne Newton and the Legal Fight that Changed Copyright Law

by Mike Jones
June 22, 2026

From Page & Plant to Maluma, Wayne Newton to a Grammy nomination with Alice Cooper and Slash -violinist and producer Michelle Jones has done it all. She's the founder of Violectric, the world's first LED string ensemble, a Disney solo musician, a live event producer who won a World Entertainment Award, and the woman whose legal fight changed U.S. copyright law for content creators everywhere. ...

Album Review

Richard Baratta: Another Kind of Bird

Read "Another Kind of Bird" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 22, 2026

Charlie Parker's music has withstood every conceivable tribute. It has been copied, analyzed, celebrated, and occasionally embalmed by its own importance. Imagine the surprise at the release of drummer-percussionist Richard Baratta's Another Kind of Bird, which is not another museum-piece salute to Bird. Baratta and pianist-arranger Bill O'Connell treat Parker's compositions as living, breathing works capable of absorbing new colours, rhythms, and fresh perspectives without sacrificing their lineage. Baratta expands his customary sextet into a formidable, horn-driven ensemble ...

Album Review

Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch: Feebles, Fables And Ferns

Read "Feebles, Fables And Ferns" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
June 22, 2026

Recorded in Fred Hersch's New York studio in August 1988, Feebles, Fables and Ferns captures a rare, one-time meeting between two luminaries who were both active in Boston at the time. That it has taken nearly four decades to reach the public is a question the music itself seems to answer: this is not the kind of recording that announces itself. It simply waits, patient and self-possessed. Notorious for shunning the limelight,Mick Goodrick--spent the bulk of his career as a ...

Album Review

Teiku: Klang

by Glenn Astarita
June 21, 2026

Teiku is a Talmudic acronym that translates to “unanswered question," a concept the Chicago-Detroit quartet has adopted as a full artistic identity. Co-leaders Josh Harlow (piano) and Jonathan Barahal (percussion) formed the band after discovering a striking coincidence: Both grew up singing Passover melodies unique to their ancestral Ashkenazi-Ukrainian villages. Passed down by ear through generations from communities wiped out by persecutions, these liturgical songs became the raw material for a creative jazz project that registers as deeply spiritual yet ...

Album Review

Kenny Barron: So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon

Read "So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
June 21, 2026

Kenny Barron had the responsibility of playing piano on People Time (Universal Records, 1991) with Stan Getz--a poignant 7 CD box set recorded just three months before the saxophonist's death. Throughout those sessions, Barron displayed an extraordinary sensitivity. Now, as then, his piano phrasing is marked by incredible restraint and weightless grace. That same brilliance shines through on So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon, an archival jazz release from Elemental Music that captures a masterclass by one ...

Radio & Podcasts

Emmett Cohen, Gunhild Carling, Gregory Golub, Henry Robinett & Sonny Rollins

by Joe Dimino
June 21, 2026

With heavy hearts and deep gratitude, we open the 963rd Episode of Neon Jazz by celebrating the extraordinary life and legacy of the legendary Sonny Rollins. The jazz giant passed away on May 25, 2026, at the age of 95, leaving behind a towering body of work and a spirit that forever changed the course of music. To honor his memory, we revisit a special 2014 Neon Jazz interview and spin the fitting classic “You Stepped Out of a Dream" ...

Album Review

Virginia MacDonald: In Search Of...

Read "In Search Of..." reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2026

Perhaps one reason that Virginia MacDonald is so hard to track down is that she is a woman who plays jazz clarinet. Do you know of any others? Here are at least two, both of whom are alive and active: New Orleans' Doreen Ketchens and Israeli-American Anat Cohen. Excellent players but several long strides from becoming household names. MacDonald, who is from Toronto, Canada, has earned that country's JUNO Award (the Canadian version of the Grammys) and won ...

Radio & Podcasts

Lyle Workman, Joel Sena, Casiopea, simon Phillips, Dennis Chambers, Virgil Donati

by Len Davis
June 21, 2026

We open the program with new music from Mumbai pianist Luiz Banks, delivering a taste of his trademark jazz fusion style, followed by the legendary Japanese band Casiopea and an exciting live recording. Guitarist Lyle Workman is up next, along with Melbourne Saxophonist Joel Sena and his latest fusion release. Venezuelan pianist Manuel Gamez teams up with Mike Stern then Greg Spero with his new single featuring bassist Mohini Dey. From Minneapolis The Architects have some new progressive sounds and ...

Album Review

Brad Goode: Live Your Dream

Read "Live Your Dream" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2026

Live Your Dream is the second album on which trumpet master Brad Goode and acclaimed tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts have shared the front line. The first, That's Right!, was recorded eight years earlier, in 2018. The sophomore enterprise was taped live at the North Street Cabaret in Madison, Wisconsin, something the musicians were unaware of until after the concert was over. Make no mistake, these are accomplished artists who have circled the track many times in a wide ...